Yes! India doesn't know Velunachiyar, Bharathiyar and VOC
The refusal of a tamil Nadu vehicle to participate in the Republic Day parade has been a source of contention. The neglect of tamil Nadu, kerala, and telangana in South india cannot be overstated. The problem, however, should not be limited to "no place in the Republic Day procession." We need to dig a little deeper.
Gandhi Road, Sardar patel Road, Nehru Road, Netaji Road, Bhagat Singh Street, azad Street, and Tilak Stadium are all plainly visible to a North indian visiting various places in tamil Nadu. It shouldn't come as a shock to him. Because, in his opinion, these are the only indian politicians who are enamoured with the fact that they were the only ones who fought for India's independence. tamil Nadu residents, on the other hand, are more inclined than North indians to name their children after their leaders.
My father named his nieces 'Gandhi' and 'Bose' after my father, who educated them. In addition, how many Nehrus, Bhagat Singhs, chandrasekhar Azads, and Jayaprakash Narayanas do we have in tamil Nadu? In the Tanjore region, names like Ranadive, Bhupesh, Tange, and jyoti basu are used by communist leaders in the north. But how many North indians have given their children the names of tamil Nadu liberation fighters? How many streets and highways in North india bear the names of tamil Nadu leaders? It's possible for acquaintances to point out!
We must inquire to what extent the South, particularly tamil Nadu, is included in a North Indian's common sense. Velunacharya, V.U.C., Bharathiar, Veerapandiyak Kattabomman, Umaithurai, Marudu brothers, and many others, including Subramania Siva, Tirupur Kumaran, and Lakshmi, all tell the same account. Rajaji may have had some knowledge of Kamaraj. There's no harm in telling them everything. South india has no place in anything that is oral or recorded history, beginning in school. Tamils were among the first to fight the British. Exceptionally, some events, lines, and chapters may have featured in North indian history books.
"I raised my voice in 2015 about the car issue," Shah Jahan, a tamil writer living in New Delhi, remarked when I asked him about it. Since I moved to Delhi, I've seen it every year. Only vehicles from a few states will be allowed to enter. There was no car in tamil Nadu in 2015. Bihar, West Bengal, Odisha, tamil Nadu, and kerala had no buses at the time. In the north, vehicles from himachal pradesh were excluded, as were vehicles from Nagaland, Tripura, Manipur, Meghalaya, and Mizoram in the northeast. There is no such thing as a Union Territory, which includes Delhi. Is it possible to consider the parade, in which just 16 state vehicles took part, to be a full representation of the Republic of India?